When her first attempts at finding her missing father fail, Lola is sent to Redwood Academy as punishment. However, it's there she meets friends Jin Wu-Rossi and Hannah Hill, who are sympathetic to her cause and agree to help her. Lola is certain her father isn't dead like the authorities told her. She knows the truth has to do with his work on the Stone of Istenanya, which is purported to contain dangerous magic. Lola and her friends soon realize that someone else is after the Stone too, and it's then they realize its magic is real and her father may be in serious danger.